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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.
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No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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Error itself may be happy chance.
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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